thought police

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thought police

n
a group of people with totalitarian views on a given subject, who constantly monitor others for any deviation from prescribed thinking
[C20: from the Thought Police described by George Orwell in his novel Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949)]
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Translations
tankepoliti
policía del pensamiento
משטרת המחשבות
psicopolizia
tankepoliti
policja myśli
tankepolis
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Defence witness Linda McDonald, of Johnstone Castle, told the court she thought police had been over the top in the way they dealt with the family.
Today, Orwell's Thought Police are, rather ominously, everywhere.
A source told the Examiner that it was thought police had found a second bullet during fingertip searches of the area.
If so, I await the arrival of the thought police as I still have a stock of proper Britishinvented light bulbs.
Thought police have no business sanctioning anyone, let alone lawyers.
"At first, I thought police were pursuing robbers only to learn later they were chasing escaping prisoners," said Mr Luke Owiny.Security was immediately beefed up within the prisons, which has both male and female wings.
Not thought police." Even those who defended Mr Heaton-Harris, one saying he might have been researching a book, admitted the letter "probably should not have been sent".
FREE SPEECH DEBATE: Is the University of Oregon's Bias Response Team a "thought police" squad or a necessary means of providing education on diversity and cultural differences?
JUST when you thought Police Scotland's reputation couldn't be further tarnished, they arrest a concerned dad warning his community about a dangerous sex offender.
Buffalo, NY, November 11, 2014 --(PR.com)-- Thought Police Interactive (TPI Fiction), an indie collaborative storytelling and roleplaying game publisher, announces the open distribution of the original Arthur's Legacy alpha release.
It later spread through Tumblr and Twitter, across our small, bright quilt of communities: an online thought police. The officers of the thought police felt deeply entitled and were intent on unraveling a half-century of LGBT community-building to insulate themselves from what has become the unendurable offense of much of today's activism: feeling offended.
I would have thought police time would be better spent catching all the uninsured, unlicensed and dangerous muppets on the road.
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